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 * Urban Settings in America: "It Happened in the City" **

__**essential question: **__ What does the urban setting contribute to these stories?

__**learning objectives: **__
 * Compare & contrast story characters, plots, themes, and settings from works about urban America.
 * Distinguish between explicit and implicit ways of describing the effect of setting on characters, plots, and themes.
 * Analyze the ways in which the structure of a work affects how the setting is conveyed.
 * Analyze different accounts of the same event.
 * Write poetry (concrete and haiku) and perform it for classmates.
 * Compare elements of the musical Chicago to other poetry and prose about the city of Chicago.
 * Define related words and identify their parts of speech.


 * __texts: __**
 * //Alphabet City// and //City by Numbers// by Stephen T. Johnson
 * "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg
 * "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
 * //Stone Bench in an Empty Park// by Paul Janeczko
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Technically, It's Not My Fault// by John Grandits
 * //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">by Anne Mazer
 * //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Nine Stories // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">by J.D. Salinger
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Umbrella Man and Other Stories// by Roald Dahl
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories// by Richard Peck

__**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">terminology: **__
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">connotation
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">explicit textual evidence
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">implicite textual evidence
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">literal vs. figurative language
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">setting
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">theme